It is too bad you or I or anyone else could not personify his specific industry of senselessness.

Chopra has no protestants. He is a one man religion of Chopranity. If he did have direct competition, the singularity of his fraud campaign would fragment as people would become bored with it, as they do with the latest superstar pop singer who rises to the top only to sink beneath the next superstar pop singer.

I speak/communicate with my siblings at least weekly and with my children and grandchildren almost every day by telephone and through e-mail or FaceBook. My 3 siblings and I are in Florida, Mississippi, Tennesee and Michigan (USA). That gives me 3 out of 4; don’t understand the “more likely” as it has no referent. Deepak’s tw**ts could almost be random polysyllabic words strung together to make poorly constructed sentences.

This is going to sound patronizing and dismissive, but I really do feel sorry for Chopra when I read this crap. Has he ever written or said anything that wasn’t pompous charlatanry or petulant sniping at his critics?

He’s not a cynic; the fact that he does this even when he’s on vacation in one of the most beautiful places on Earth suggests that he is high on his own supply. Nothing on that savanna will bring him any more than his default smug satisfaction. Nothing he sees out there will give him a quantum epiphany that he couldn’t have had at home. What’s he doing out there? How can this make him happy?

I feel sorry for him too but that’s just empathy. Narcissists constantly do things normal people would find embarrassing and when you’re around them when they do these things, you get to feel embarrassed for them. Don’t worry, they totally won’t feel what you’re feeling.

I don’t feel bad for him because he’s making a fool of himself, but because he’s trapped in a web of his own bullshit and can’t escape. He can’t experience or enjoy anything without attaching quantum mysticism to it.

His “awareness fields” or whathaveyou are monistic and omnipresent, so he has to see them everywhere. If he ever for even a second didn’t, he’d have to admit error, and Chopra’s too self-serious and narcissistic to allow that.

Agreed, since that was in an aside of mine a few days back, so great minds and all. Inasmuch one can go from ‘statistics’ to predict individual behavior this is what I ended up with.

Netiquette, when forced to predict on individuals* go for the simplest predictions, the man makes money.

Anywhere else I say narcissism, since money wouldn’t be a driver. (Except I read last week that tests show narcissists do better specifically in job interviews. A sad fact on us, but useful as I now have a role model, real narcissist or emulating narcissists, for next time! =D)

*Ironic dodge here, when we are discussing narcissists and their seeming lack of understanding body language. =D

In his second tweet, Chopra makes a claim that is eligible for Randi’s million dollar prize – i.e. that people can communicate non-locally, which I believe is a paranormal claim hitherto unproven by science.

Given his recent challenge to skeptics, he should put his mouth where the money is, and apply for it. But he won’t.

Imagine that Deepak, with his penchant for boxes, finds himself replacing Schrodinger’s cat in a quantum-state experiment.

Also imagine that instead of a device which could by chance make him dead or not-dead, there is a device which will release a
homeopathic cure for the propensity to utter new-age word salad. Normally we will not establish whether or not he is cured
until we open the box, but I suspect that whether the homeopathic cure is released or not, when we open the box Deepak will
always be spouting drivel, thereby violating Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.